D53.8 — Other specified nutritional anemias
D53.8 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code for other specified nutritional anemias. It is valid for submission on a claim.
Excludes2 — not included here, but may coexist
The excluded condition is not part of this code, but a patient can have both. You may code both.
Inclusion terms
Alternative wordings a physician may use in the chart for this same code.
- Anemia associated with deficiency of copper
- Anemia associated with deficiency of molybdenum
- Anemia associated with deficiency of zinc
Risk adjustment
D53.8 does not map to an HCC and does not risk-adjust under CMS-HCC V28. That is normal — most ICD-10 codes do not. It still needs to be coded correctly; it just will not move a RAF score.
How D53.8 is indexed
Coders do not find codes by browsing the tabular list — they look them up in the alphabetic index, under the word the physician wrote. These are the index entries that lead here, so you can see which chart wordings map to D53.8.
- Anemia›due to›deficiency›copper
- Anemia›due to›deficiency›molybdenum
- Anemia›due to›deficiency›zinc
- Anemia›nutritional›with›specified deficiency NEC
- Anemia›deficiency›nutritional›with›specified deficiency NEC
Related codes at this level
Codes that share D53. If D53.8 is not quite right, the correct code is usually one of these.
Questions about D53.8
- Is D53.8 a billable ICD-10-CM code?
- Yes. D53.8 is a billable, specific ICD-10-CM code and is valid for submission on a claim.
- Where does D53.8 sit in the tabular list?
- Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs and certain disorders involving the immune mechanism (D50-D89), in the block Nutritional anemias (D50-D53).